Overview
- Mendoza’s Health Ministry confirmed it submitted 10 civil complaints after families refused or failed to complete the mandatory immunization schedule.
- The filings mark the first formal judicial actions of their kind in Argentina to enforce the national vaccination program for children.
- Health teams used the national vaccination registry to identify incomplete schedules, exhausted outreach attempts, and then escalated unresolved cases to court.
- Judges can order vaccination, impose protection measures, or levy fines of 200,000 to 300,000 pesos as established by Resolution No. 2,572.
- Authorities cite renewed measles transmission and seven recent infant deaths from pertussis as drivers for action, with coverage above 80% in schools but below the ~95% needed and largest gaps at 12–15 months.